Race/ethnicity and age distribution of breast cancer diagnosis in the United States
Menée à partir des données des registres américains des cancers portant sur 747 763 patientes atteintes d'un cancer du sein entre 1973 et 2010, cette étude évalue, en fonction de l'appartenance ethnique, l'age des patientes et le stade de la tumeur au diagnostic
The US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) currently recommends initiating breast cancer screening at 50 years of age in patients at average risk.1 However, we hypothesize that these guidelines may not be sensitive to racial differences and may be inappropriately extrapolating data from largely white populations for use in racially diverse populations. This process could result in underscreening of nonwhite female patients. These concerns are similar to broader discussions regarding sex bias in the clinical research process, leading to recent policy changes at the National Institutes of Health and the US Food and Drug Administration.2 The goal of this study is to assess the age distribution of breast cancer diagnosis across race/ethnicity in the United States.
JAMA Surgery 2018